The only thing bubbles care about is wet and dry.
If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.
Bubbles are one of the few things in life that we are allowed to break.
I ended up living on Crete for eight months. I picked olives and did house painting and got broke.
Bubbles are incredibly basic. We think of them in that way just because they're a kid's toy. But I think it's more basic than childhood, something primal - the liquid, the flow, the shapes. We were liquid at one point in our development.
On good days, I've done bubbles with as many as 38 faces - a row of pentagons, a row of hexagons, and another row of pentagons on bottom.
If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.
I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.
If you stare at suds, you'll go crazy. But in soap suds, you'll find bubble cubes and many other forms. I just take those things, magnify them and sometimes blow smoke inside it so you can see it better.
I've never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They're all beautiful. They're like jewels, transient jewels.
At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.
I use ordinary soap bubbles, the dime-store stuff, two wands and a plastic straw.
I took a job at a factory in New Jersey to try to save money to go to Europe. When I took the job, I set a date for quitting. I was going to hitchhike around, be a hippie, see the world. I just wanted to be responsible long enough to get up the money to get there and trip around.
I was never very good at stopping crowds. I started blowing bubbles to attract people.
The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.
I didn't want to go out at night and spend my money in bars and stuff like that, so when I came home at night, I just wanted to entertain myself.
I walked the rainbow trail for a good number of years.
I love hands-on science and teaching the kids. I love to see kids experiment with things that they can make happen. Not just something you read the directions to and put it together that way. Things that can be constructed, something they can touch. What a great day when you can touch a child's mind with these ideas.
Bubbles have more colors than a rainbow.
I tried to do a puppet show on the streets, and I wasn't a very good street performer. But I found that I could stand in one place in Central Park and bounce a soap bubble on my arm, and I didn't have to gather a crowd for the puppet show. I had a crowd.